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Soccer Practice Games Make each practice more challenging, productive, and fun with 125 games! Divided into six sections, Soccer Practice Games presents games on the following aspects:

Warm-up and conditioning
Passing and receiving
Dribbling, shielding, and tackling
Heading and shooting
Tactical training
Goalkeeper training

Each game maximizes player involvement, activity, and learning and contains at least one major objective related to player or team development. A detailed explanation and accompanying illustrations are provided for each game to make application easy. Games can be easily adapted to accommodate players of various ages and abilities.

Designed for beginning youth through high school competitive levels, Soccer Practice Games is a big winner among coaches and those who teach soccer. Whether working with whole teams, small groups, or players one-on-one, it is a fun and effective way to instruct and learn the game.
Customer Review: Soccer Practice Games
Good book, easy games with comprensive images, is a good book to start to teach how introduce the principles of soccer.Is a book you must be have in your library.
Customer Review: Decent Resource for Youth Soccer Coaches
These game-style drills make soccer practices much more fun, and they help teach fundamentals at the same time. This book doesn’t really get into strategies or position playing, but it is a good collection of drills that will keep all of your players busy and learning.

Because soccer is a low scoring game, if a goal is scored, the goalie must erase it from his mind. As a goalie,you are the only player on the field who can use his hands. Some goalies make their job look easy, they always seem to be in the right position to make the save. Good goalies are able to concentrate and keep focused on the game, that is why they are able to realize where the shot will come from and make the necessary adjustment. As a goalkeeper your stance is 3 to 4 feet in front of the goal line and in the center of the goal posts. Keep your knees slightly bent and move side to side the same way the ball moves, keep yourself positioned between the ball and the goal. It is OK to play aggressively and move toward the ball to cut down the shooters angle. It takes practice to find out how far you can safely come out in order for the shooter not to chip it over your head. As a goalie you have different type of shots to defend against. Each one requires different catching skills. …